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[Magic-Merl]

No. No. Please don't mis-understand me.  I have moved on. Thats all. I always listen to whats going on in the Amiga world because I enjoyed my Amiga experience. I prefer to be on the outside looking in at the mo!

Amiga Inc. don't "get to me" - at all.  I know if anything is going to come from ANY Amiga company it will be Hyperion or indeed AROS.

But for now - I will watch with interest and the hope that I will one day see OS4 or AROS running on my desktop.

Cheers

[Minuous]

There's still nothing on the site that is of interest to any AmigaOS user or developer. It really wouldn't be hard for them to put a few developer documents/tutorials up.

This Kent announcement seems to imply that all future DevCons will be held there. Which is a bad thing considering it's on the other side of the world.

Speaking of DevCons, were the notes from the Italian DevCon held a year or two ago ever released?

[weirdami]

Amiga is a New York based company

wow. i think i remember someone posting pictures of their drop-house. was that in new york? I don't remember. why is it a new york company when everyone that works there is in california... or kent?

[humppa]

wow. i think i remember someone posting pictures of their drop-house. was that in new york?

Cecilia took two photos of their "office" in NY: Link
Also see the comments and there is some more info here

why is it a new york company when everyone that works there is in california... or kent?

Simply because they have registered the company in NY. Nobody has to be working there. There might be also other reasons like taxes and such. AFAIK John Grzymala and Pentti Kouri at least reside in NY. Hakia Inc. and Itec LLC are NY-based. Companies registered on the Bahamas usually also only serve as a drop-house/mailbox.

LINK

"On the other hand, the address of 167 Madison Avenue, Suite 301, New York, New York, listed as the Plaintiff’s principal place of business in the Complaint, which is the office of an architect, is merely a mail drop where Plaintiff’s independent accountant, not an employee, maintains his personal office (Hare Declaration, para. 7). If fact, the independent accountant, John Grzymala, only conducts his accounting business there, where he does the bookkeeping for a number of companies, besides the Plaintiff (Hare Declaration, para. 7). No employees of Plaintiff have an office at 167 Madison Avenue (Hare Declaration, para. 7). Further, the Plaintiff has no employees located within New York State (Hare Declaration, para. 7). The only connection the Plaintiff has with New York State is that the Chairman and majority stockholder, Pentti Kouri, lives in New York State (Hare Declaration, para. 7).
Accordingly, it is respectfully submitted that according to the place of operations test, the
principal place of business of Plaintiff is the State of California,"

(taken from Garry Hare vs. Amiga Inc. courtcase)

[Nautilus]

Looks like a 10yo design. Messy and ugly.

[Plaz]

We, the "Amiga community" do not exist as far as the new

I tend to agree. I think they hope to license DE and maybe the OS to some large third party hardware developers with little or no interest in having any thing to do directly with hardware themselfs. Projects like SAM probably seem to small to fool with. I'm guessing they're looking for "bigger fish to fry".

I wonder if they feel that the classic community is just an annoying insect left over from the old days that they'd like to forget. They may have once thought to use the community as a grass roots advertising tool. But maybe now they think it contains too many critics, so it's no longer useful?

I'd still like to be suprised and have my assumptions disproved though.

Plaz

[humppa]

I wonder if they feel that the classic community is just an annoying insect left over from the old days that they'd like to forget. They may have once thought to use the community as a grass roots advertising tool. But maybe now they think it contains too many critics, so it's no longer useful?

Would that necessarily be a bad thing? If they consider the "bunch of die-hards and crackpots" as no longer useful, they might want to get rid of them by selling this part of the IP/naming rights to a someone who considers it still as valuable/profitable (not sure if such party exists).

As long as they still see any value in the community, even if this value comes from selling a few boing-branded AmigaDE packs or puzzle-games to the few Amiga Inc. followers, they probably still keep them.
If they get the feeling that the community does them more harm than good however, they might consider getting rid of them. This might be a turn of the better, or can it really get any worse?

[weirdami]

The new Amiga.com site looks very similar to these sites (especially the coloured tabs at the top - identical):

http://www.ruksun.com/html/aboutruksun.htm
http://amigadevindia.com/

That's not so :-?. I seem to remember ruksun being Amiga India and the other one is also India, it looks like. Probably some Indian is doing the websites now. Once all the operations move to India, they'll finally be able to install a call center in the USA.

[lorddef]

Amiga inc are a bunch of bum pokers.

[jj]

bum pokers, that made me laugh

they could also be classed as "crafty butchers"

i.e. they like their meat delievered around the back

[hardlink]

Poster: AmiKit  Posted: 2007/4/18 3:48:03
Quote:
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Why?
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Because on the 'About' page they have ripped off Joe Torre's legendary Amazing Floating Boing Ball hardware hack for Amiga shows!

(And his was real, not done with ImageFX)

[Plaz]

@humppa

they might want to get rid of them by selling this part of the IP/naming rights to a someone who considers it still as valuable/profitable (not sure if such party exists).

I absolutely agree. I wonder if becoming a bigger annoyance would help things.

Plaz

[weirdami]

they have ripped off Joe Torre's legendary Amazing Floating Boing Ball hardware hack for Amiga shows!

The one with the plastic tube and a fan on the bottom blowing up?

[mikrucio]

looks like crap. A crap company deserves a crap website. the old one was better.